Gender, Masculinities and Lifelong Learning reflects on current debates and discourses around gender and education, in which some academics, practitioners and policy-makers have referred to a crisis of masculinity. This book explores questions such as: Are men under-represented in education? Are women outstripping men in terms of achievement? What evidence supports the view that men are becoming educationally disadvantaged?

Drawing on research from a number of countries, including the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, the contributors discus a range of issues which intersect with gender to impact on education, including structural factors such as class, ethnicity and age as well as colonisation and migration. The book provides evidence and argument to illuminate contemporary debates about the involvement of men and women in education, including:

• The impact of colonisation on the gendering of education and lifelong learning
• International surveys on men, women and educational participation
• Gender, masculinities and migrants learning experiences
• Boys-only classes as a response to the problem of underachieving boys
• Men s perspectives on learning to become parents
• Community learning, gender and public policy
• Older men s perspectives on (re-)entering post-compulsory education

The book goes on to suggest the implications for practice, research and policy. Importantly, it critically addresses some of the taken-for-granted beliefs about men and their engagement in lifelong learning, presenting new evidence to demonstrate the complexity of gender and education today. With these complexities in mind, the authors provide a framework for developing further understanding of the issues involved with gender and lifelong learning.

Gender, Masculinities and Lifelong Learning will be of interest to any practitioner open to fresh ideas and approaches in teaching and programming connected with gender and education.

Gender, Masculinities and Lifelong Learning reflects on current debates and discourses around gender and education, in which some academics, practitioners and policy-makers have referred to a crisis of masculinity. This book explores questions such as: Are men under-represented in education? Are women outstripping men in terms of achievement? What evidence supports the view that men are becoming educationally disadvantaged?

Drawing on research from a number of countries, including the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, the contributors' discuss a range of issues which intersect with gender to impact on education, including structural factors such as class, ethnicity and age as well as colonisation and migration. The book provides evidence and argument to illuminate contemporary debates about the involvement of men and women in education, including:

• The impact of colonisation on the gendering of education and lifelong learning
• International surveys on men, women and educational participation
• Gender, masculinities and migrants learning experiences
• Boys-only classes as a response to the problem of underachieving boys
• Men s perspectives on learning to become parents
• Community learning, gender and public policy
• Older men s perspectives on (re-)entering post-compulsory education

The book goes on to suggest the implications for practice, research and policy. Importantly, it critically addresses some of the taken-for-granted beliefs about men and their engagement in lifelong learning, presenting new evidence to demonstrate the complexity of gender and education today. With these complexities in mind, the authors provide a framework for developing further understanding of the issues involved with gender and lifelong learning.

Gender, Masculinities and Lifelong Learning will be of interest to any practitioner open to fresh ideas and approaches in teaching and programming connected with gender and education.

In the final installment of The Guardian Trilogy, The Guardian Tested, Aaron is back to reclaim his love. Although he is beginning to become comfortable with his powers, his relentless new enemy Mammon tests him at every turn. Aaron has to fight his way through countless lies and illusions to find reality and rescue his love from Mammon's clever traps and nefarious plans for her. Mammon will not give up easily, but he doesn't know what to expect when he succeeds in really angering The Guardian. Old allies, Shadow and Oryon are with Aaron every step of the way and are instrumental in rescuing Lisa from her latest captor, who at first she thinks is friend rather than foe. Who is Mammon really and what are his plans for Lisa? The Guardian Tested takes readers through a roller coaster of twists and turns as Aaron stumbles in his role as The Guardian to rescue his love who at first doesn't know she needs rescuing.

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